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[House  Bill,  No.  10.] 

HOUSE  OF  REPRESENTATIVES.— January  27,  1863.— Read 

first  and  second  times,    referred  to   Committee  on  Military    Affairs, 
and  ordered  to  be  printed.  g 

[By  Mr.  Miles.] 


Aj   J3ILL 

To  be  entitled  An  Act  to  provide  for  the  arrest  of  soldiers  absent  from 
their  commands  without  leave,   and  providing   compensation  to 
their  captors. 
1-         Section   1.    The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do 

2  enact,  That  from  and  after  the  passage  of  this  Act,  it  shall  be 

3  the  duty  of  every  commander  of  a  company  in  the  armies  of  the 

4  Confederate  States,  so  soon  as  he  knows  that  any  private  or  non- 

5  commissioned  officer  of  his  company  is  absent  without  leave,  to 

6  send  up  a  certificate  of  the  fact  to  the  commander  of  his  brigade, 

7  who  shall  forthwith  employ  such  responsible  person  or  persons 

8  as  he  may  think  proper,  to  arrest  and  bring  back  to  his  command 

9  such  absent  private  or  non-commissioned  officer. 

1  Sec  2.  Be   it  further  enacted,  That  whenever  the  delinquent 

2  absentee,  together  with  the  certificate   above  mentioned  of  his 

3  "company  commander,  to  the  fact  of  his  absence  without  leave, 


4  shall  be  delivered  to  the  commanding  officer  of  a  military  post  or 

5  camp,    such    commanding    officer    s^all    give    a  receipt   for   the 

6  delivery  of  such  absentee  to  the  person  or  persons  so  delivering 

7  him. 

1  Sec.  3.     Be  it  further  enacted,  /That  upon  the  presentation  of 

2  the  receipt  above  mentioned  to  the  quartermaster  of  the  post  or 

3  camp,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  said  quartermaster  to  pay  to 

4  the  person  or  persons  presenting  such  receipt  the  sum  of  fifteen 

5  dollars,  for  which  this  law  shall  be  his  warrant  and  authority. 

1  Sec.  4.  Be  it  further  enacted,  That  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the 

2  commanding  officer  of  the  post  or  camp  wTho  receives  the  private 

3  or  non-commissioned  officer  so  delivered,  to  send  as  speedily  as 

4  practicable  such  private  or  non-commissioned  officer  back  to  the 

5  commanding  officer  of  the  company  to  which  he  belongs,  together 

6  with  a  copy  of  the  receipt  which  he  has  given  to  the  person  or 

7  persons  delivering  him. 

1  Sec.  5.  Be  it  further  enactfd,  That  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the 

2  commanding  officer  of  the  company  to  which  the  returned  private 

3  or  non-commissioned  officer"  belongs,  upon   the   delivery  of  the 

4  man  and  the  copy  of  the  receipt  above  mentioned,  to  enter  on 

5  the  muster  and  pay  rolls  of  the  company,  opposite  tl>e  name  of 

6  such  returned  private  or  non-commissioned  officer,  the  full  sum 

7  of  fifteen  dollars,  in  order  that  the  said  sum  may  be  deducted- 


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